Mark Randall Osborn

San Diego, Californie, ÉU, 1969 — Malibu, Californie, ÉU, 2002

Compositeur

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Mark Randall Osborn (1969-2002) was born in San Diego and studied
composition at UCSD and CalArts with Brian Ferneyhough, Steven Takasugi and Mel Powell, and conducting with
Stephen “Lucky” Mosko and Harvey Sollberger.
Osborn also worked at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), the Center for
Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) and at IRCAM, and
taught composition, harmony, counterpoint, ear training and music history.

His works have been performed at international festivals, including Münchener Biennale,
Klangspuren, Eclat, Klang Raum, Musik-BiennaleBerlin, Musik auf Solitude, Bludenzer Tage
Zeitgemäßer Musik, Tage Neue Kammermusik Braunschweig, Emerging Voices, CalArts spring music
festival, and at the Darmstädter ferienkurse.

Central to his compositional concerns is the destabilization of logical faculties in favor of a
more fluid experience of time and musical relationship. This does not, however, imply the simple
abnegation of the rational mind, but rather its engagement in a broader dialog with less
conventionally located ways of apprehending experience. Rather than focusing the aesthetic
experience upon a deterministic teleology, Osborn’s works seem to emanate from a web-like body of
inferred connections.

Mark Randall Osborn was killed in a traffic accident on October 1,
2002.